David Sawer: From Morning to Midnight

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From Morning to Midnight

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Work introduction

“His command of skills that
brand-X composers take half a dozen operas to perfect is complete: dramatic
shape and pace, the specific gravity of music-with-action. Structurally the piece
is faultless. His musical language, very low on the squeaky-gate scale, need
terrify no one: he loves his Debussy and Ravel (who doesn’t?) and has a nice
line in some Prokofiev- style grotesquerie. Much more significant is the clarity
of his musical thought: you know exactly why every note is there and what –
operatically – it is for.” (Rodney Milnes, The Times)